Colorado Springs Business Journal (CO) articles from June 2005

Colorado Springs Business Journal (CO) archives from June 2005

American Staffing Association reports increase in temporary employment placement.
June 3, 2005... Byline: Becky Hurley Cari Shaffer sees the temporary staffing business as a barometer for other industries. And based on increasing placements, she's optimistic about the direction that the economy is headed. "I think we can expect...

Colorado Springs Medical Briefs: June 3, 2005.
June 3, 2005... Byline: Marylou Doehrman Malesa Prudhomme, believing that technology is such that ethics will never catch up, decided four years ago to coordinate a national forum on perinatal and neonatal ethical issues. The fourth forum, sponsored...

Colorado Springs Real Estate Briefs: June 3, 2005.
June 3, 2005... Byline: Stephanie Cline GE Johnson is set to break ground on the San Juan Cancer Center in Montrose this month. The 14,600 square foot cancer center is a $3.8 million project slated for completion in March 2006. GE Johnson is working...

National council lobbies for small, family owned manufacturers.
June 3, 2005... Byline: Marylou Doehrman The United States Business and Industry Council wants to freeze free-trade agreements before small and family owned U.S. manufacturers become as endangered as Colorado's Gray Wolf. Since the inception of the...

Bank earnings down, profits up in 2004 in U.S.
June 3, 2005... Byline: Rob Larimer After reporting double-digit earnings growth for the last two years, the nation's banks reported a heavy earnings slowdown in 2004. Reports showed growth of 1.8 percent last year, compared to 14.6 percent in 2003...

Commentary: Making choices for the bigger picture.
June 3, 2005... Byline: Marylou Doehrman Howard Weyers, the owner of a Michigan-based company, Weyco Inc., instructed his employees this year to quit smoking on or off the job, or lose it. Weyers, who is 70 years old and runs and lifts weights everyday,...

Commentary: Rugby and relationships.
June 3, 2005... Byline: Lon Matejczyk A couple weeks ago I went back to my alma mater, the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Eau Claire Rugby Club. I started playing rugby in 1982 and played actively until...

Investment brokers tepid about private Social Security accounts.
June 3, 2005... Byline: Rob Larimer Despite the potential of millions of new customers, investment brokers aren't rallying to support President George W. Bush's plan to reform Social Security by offering workers the option of investing in private...

Vectra Bank president seeking more branches in Colorado Springs.
June 3, 2005... Byline: Rob Larimer When Vectra Bank President Kim Bonniwell took over operations in the Pikes Peak region a year ago, he wanted to expand the bank's reach in Colorado Springs. That goal is scheduled to become a reality. Vectra plans...

Colorado Springs' new business parks offer option to buy.
June 3, 2005... Byline: Stephanie Cline Leasing space isn't the only option available to potential tenants in Colorado Springs' four new business parks. The Aerotech Industrial Condomini-ums, Town Center Business Park, North Springs Business Park and...

Colorado Springs Medical Briefs: June 10, 2005.
June 10, 2005... Byline: Marylou Doehrman The Diabetes PHD (Personal Health Decisions), powered by Archimedes, a Kaiser Permanente virtual technology innovation, is a new preventive health tool for predicting diabetes-related health issues. Kaiser...

Colorado Springs Real Estate Briefs: June 10, 2005.
June 10, 2005... Byline: Becky Hurley A lot happens in a year. Returning to the Colorado Springs Business Journal after just 12 months away is like picking up a favorite book you've started and had to set aside. The fun comes in catching up with the story...

Specialization gives Springs-based CEA Technologies edge in global marketplace.
June 10, 2005... Byline: Marylou Doehrman CEA Technologies has found a safe slot in the manufacturing industry by producing highly specialized products for the medical community. "Our niche is engineering the ideas given to us by surgeons and others,"...

Springs retailer believes advertising with plasma panels provides biggest bang for her buck.
June 10, 2005... Byline: Marylou Doehrman Terry Ortega believes that promoting her company's message on big-screen plasma display panels provides the biggest bang for her buck. "I think this has more of an impact than print," said Ortega, owner of...

National League of Cities to host 3-day forum in Denver next week.
June 10, 2005... Byline: Rob Larimer The National League of Cities is hosting a forum in Denver next week at which nearly 200 elected officials from across the country will weigh in on improving local economies in a global marketplace. Colorado Springs...

Plasma screens in Colorado Springs double as electronic billboards.
June 10, 2005... Byline: Marylou Doehrman Sonny Mata has shifted his focus from the small screens of ATMs to big-screen plasma display panels. Mata is part owner of more than 600 ATMs. He and his business partner, Ron Monesmith, considered running...

First phase of Agilent Technology in Colorado Springs makeover complete.
June 10, 2005... Byline: Becky Hurley Agilent Technology has completed Phase I of a seven-stage remodel of its Garden of the Gods facility. The estimated cost to date is $3.25 million. GE Johnson Construction Co. built the original three-building...

Outstanding safety records award Colorado Springs businesses a shared total of $5.9M.
June 10, 2005... Byline: Marylou Doehrman Maintaining a safe work environment pays-literally. Pinnacol Assurance, Colorado's oldest and largest provider of workers' compensation insurance, distributed 55,000 checks totaling $55 million to businesses...

Colorado Springs Briefs: June 10, 2005.
June 10, 2005... Byline: Colorado Springs Business Journal Staff Salvation Army Women's Auxiliary hosting fundraiser The Salvation Army Women's Auxiliary is hosting a Mexican dinner fundraiser from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. June 12 at 908 Yuma St. ...

Author of "Put Old on Hold" has clear ideas on proper dress codes.
June 10, 2005... Byline: Mike Boyd Barbara Morris has a clear idea of how a man should look at the office: freshly showered, clean shaven and buttoned up in a suit, shirt and tie. "Guys who adopt unwashed disheveled trendiness cheat themselves. They...

Colorado Springs Banking & Financial News: June 10, 2005.
June 10, 2005... Byline: Rob Larimer In the last decade, a number of financial institutions have created programs to help women learn to make long-term financial plans and to overcome fears that financial planning is too complicated. While women...

Cost of recovering deleted e-mails adds considerable expense to an employment lawsuit.
June 17, 2005... Byline: Rob Larimer E-mail can be the smoking gun that makes or breaks an employment lawsuit, but the cost of recovering deleted messages can break the bank. The defendant, usually the employer, is responsible for paying to have...

Wanting a new career path, Galindo opens Colorado Springs Migun Thermal Massage Bed Centers.
June 17, 2005... Byline: Marylou Doehrman Linda Galindo has a knack for spotting opportunities. Her first career was finding lost shareholders for Janus Funds. But after myopic degeneration robbed her of sight in both eyes and made continuing along...

Waterskiing squirrel to promote opening of Integrity Bank and Trust in Colorado Springs.
June 17, 2005... Byline: Rob Larimer When Integrity Bank and Trust officials were planning the grand opening of their new Colorado Springs branch, they wanted a big-name personality to promote the event. So, they contracted the services of Twiggy- the...

Texas Longhorn cattle run in downtown Colorado Springs to kickoff Ride for the Brand Rodeo.
June 17, 2005... Byline: Marylou Doehrman At "high noon" on July 1, a few real cowboys will drive a prizewinning herd of Texas Longhorn cattle through the streets of downtown Colorado Springs. The cattle run is a kickoff to the Ride for the Brand...

Colorado Springs Financial Briefs: June 17, 2005.
June 17, 2005... Byline: Rob Larimer The new signs are up and the cards are in the mail. Bank Ones across Colorado made the changeover to become Chase on Monday, and by week's end, the behemoth financial institution will have mailed its new "blink"...

Colorado Springs Real Estate Briefs: June 17, 2005.
June 17, 2005... Byline: Becky Hurley Most weeks this column is dedicated to commercial deals, but it's hard to ignore the hot local residential market. Here's an interesting look at our market compared to Los Angeles. Research by the National...

Pike's Peak Community College Foundation targets business for more financial support.
June 17, 2005... Byline: Rob Larimer The Pike's Peak Community College Foundation is considering asking local business to pony up more dollars to fund higher education. As state funding continues to dry up, the community college foundations are...

Colorado Springs ranks among the elite on a number of national metropolitan surveys.
June 17, 2005... Byline: Becky Hurley Colorado Springs has landed among the elite on a number of national metropolitan surveys. In the past month, the city was ranked No. 23 among large metro areas, ahead of Denver, which was No. 29, on the Forbes.com...

Colorado landowners take entrepreneurial approach to making a living on the ranch.
June 17, 2005... Byline: Becky Hurley It takes more than a love of the West to make it in today's ranch economy. Just ask Russ Maytag, owner of Maytag Mountain Ranch in Hillside or Scott Saunders, owner of the Arrowhead Ranch south of Fairplay. ...

Colorado Springs Business Briefs: June 17, 2005.
June 17, 2005... Byline: Marylou Doehrman Mary Bitney is on her fifth career move, which she thinks is "poster-child" representative of the "employee of the future." Bitney transitioned in May from a part-time research consultant with the Colorado...

Commentary: Who subscribes to the CSBJ?
June 17, 2005... Byline: Lon Matejczyk We, and 56 other business journals, recently paid an arm and a leg to have Readex of Stillwater, Minn., perform an in-depth subscriber study. The national average response rate was 38 percent. It seems CSBJ...

Duo finds magical kingdom in Colorado.
June 24, 2005... Byline: Marylou Doehrman When Walt Disney Studios and Victory Communications chose producers for a video celebrating the 50th anniversary of Walt Disney's original Magic Kingdom, they discovered their creative geniuses not in the...

Ranch retailing goes global for Colorado Springs broker.
June 24, 2005... Byline: Becky Hurley In an online poll this month, more than 74,000 visitors to Forbes.com recorded their preferences in second homes. Options included a private island, a ranch, a horse farm, a country estate, a beach house, a ski lodge,...

Neurological recovery maximized by technology by Colorado Springs partnership.
June 24, 2005... Byline: Marylou Doehrman Bioness Inc. and Penrose-St. Francis Health Services have partnered to bring an innovative neuroprosthetic and rehabilitation device to Colorado Springs. The NESS H200 helps increase upper-limb function in...

Colorado Springs Medical Briefs: June 24, 2005.
June 24, 2005... Byline: Marylou Doehrman Same story. Different day. Leadership Pikes Peak sponsored a health care forum last week, and panelists Dick Eitel, the executive director of Memorial Hospital; Rick O'Connell, the CEO of Penrose-St. Francis...

Economist wary of possible downturn in Colorado in 2006.
June 24, 2005... Byline: Rob Larimer Tucker Hart Adams talked with a group of bankers and business leaders at the Antlers Hilton on Tuesday, and her message carried ominous undertones for the state's economy in 2006. Adams is U.S. Bank's chief...

Convention center still an option for downtown Colorado Springs.
June 24, 2005... Byline: Rob Larimer After being beset by a convention center defeat in April, city leaders came away from a workshop this week with renewed vigor to revive plans to revitalize downtown. The Colorado Springs Downtown Partnership and the...

Commentary: A weekend in Detroit, a fresh look at Colorado Springs.
June 24, 2005... Byline: Lon Matejczyk Two weekends ago, several managers and I went to Detroit for the Alliance of Area Business Publications summer conference. After many of you got an automatic reply when you e-mailed me and voice-mail when you...

Pikes Peak United Way celebrates 1st anniversary of 211 information hotline.
June 24, 2005... Byline: Mike Boyd The Pikes Peak United Way celebrated the first anniversary of its 211 information service this week. The hotline was designed to assist residents who have questions about non-emergency health and social services...

Colorado Springs professionals talk about career transitions, detours and segues.
June 24, 2005... Byline: Becky Hurley Mid-life brings its share of dilemmas, including whether to change careers. Some people seek new jobs because of layoffs or downsizing. Others tire of frustrations with corporate uncertainties, long hours or...

Colorado Springs Real Estate Briefs: June 24, 2005.
June 24, 2005... Byline: Becky Hurley It was a great week for quarterly reports and deals closing. Here are a few of the headliners. Quarterly indices show increased multi-family occupancy Doug Carter of Doug Carter Investment Real Estate Brokerage...